Tadakatsu Honda

Tadakatsu Honda (17 March 1548-3 December 1610) was a general of the Tokugawa clan and the daimyo of the Honda clan during the Sengoku period. He was the father of Tadatomo Honda (lord of the Otaki Domain) and Ina (the wife of Nobuyuki Sanada).

Biography
Tadakatsu Honda was born in Mikawa Province, Japan in 1548, and he served as a Tokugawa clan sentry at the Battle of Okehazama in 1560. He later rose to become a general under his master, Ieyasu Tokugawa, and he fought in almost all of Tokugawa's major battles as a loyal and fearsome warrior. His finest moment came during the Battle of Komaki-Nagakute in 1584, where he bought time for his lord's retreat by standing with a handful of men against the might of the Toyotomi army. He later played a major role in the 1600 Battle of Kuzegawa, where he rescued the Tokugawa army from an ambush, and he was also present at the Battle of Sekigahara. Following his rise to power as Shogun, Ieyasu rewarded Tadakatsu with 150,000 koku of land, and he became the leader of the Kuwana Domain in 1601. He died in 1610.